How to Reduce the CPU Load

You may sometimes experience audio crackles, dropouts or glitches due to multiple processes on your computer which cause CPU overloads. Here are a couple of methods to optimize the CPU usage on your computer:

Note that the CPU meter in your DAW usually displays the amount of the CPU used to process the audio signal, not the overall CPU load. You can monitor the current overall CPU usage in Activity Monitor on Mac, and Task Manager on Windows.

Increasing the audio buffer size

In standalone mode:

Go to File > Audio and MIDI Settings in the menu bar at the top

Increase the Buffer Size under the Audio Device tab

Click OK

In plug-in mode:

Go to the Audio Settings of your DAW

Locate the Audio Buffer Size then increase its value – please refer to the user manual of your favorite DAW for more information

Note: increasing the audio buffer size will also increase the overall latency.

Neither UVI Workstation or Falcon support multi-threading, this means that each plug-in instance will work on a single processor core only. When experiencing CPU overloads, we suggest splitting the performance (e.g. your Multi) into several plug-in instances in order that performances will be processed across several processor cores.

For instance, here is a Multi set with 3 distinct parts (Bass, Lead, Pad).